Personal website and journal for Cariad Heather Keigher.
I may edit this later as I really think that this is a bit of a word salad, but enjoy a text version of a presentation I gave at BSides Vancouver 2026 on June 1, 2026. I’ll start off with this: my current career choice is all thanks to this man, Clifford Stoll. In 1986, he found himself at the centre of an espionage story when a US$0.75 discrepancy in used computer time unravelled a hacking ring…
This is an entry in relation to the book I am currently writing. Last month, I wrote about time. This month, I am writing about how I could see a government working across multiple star systems. This is just going to be a lore post more than anything else. It doesn’t really fit the book in any fashion, but I figure it might be enjoyable for people to read to get a sense for what is to come.…
CC: Don Davies, MP Vancouver Kingsway CC: Taleeb Noormohamed, MP Vancouver Granville Hon. Prime Minister, This is a letter urging you and your party to not vote in favour of Bill C-22, an act respecting lawful access. Section 487 of the Criminal Code of Canada already provides law enforcement with sweeping abilities to request electronic data from service providers without said providers enduring…
One of the things I have been wanting to do in Reconenct is play a bit with how time is kept. Without giving away too much of the story, multiple planets separated by several weeks of travel spanning different star systems would in my mind lead to a situation where the time standards that we all know today have maybe evolved. Time-keeping is a core component of my day job as I base all of my work…
In my 2025 year-end entry, I announced that I have been working on a science fiction novel, which really is my first-ever book. Its present working-title is “Reconnect” and I’d like to let you all in what it is about. A quick summary of the story is as follows: Keira Carroll is the Chief Security Officer aboard The Robyn, a passenger ship travelling its usual route between the planets Hibernia and…
Recently I had a question: why does nobody talk about running out of Social Insurance Numbers? Every Canadian, permanent resident in Canada, or someone with a work visa receives a SIN. These numbers are actually a finite resource and it has been bugging me about why this never comes up. This is kind of a shitpost so don’t take it as completely factual, but some effort was put into guessing things.…
I had the opportunity as a donor for Movement to attend an event viewing what could be the future of transit for students, staff, and nearby residents of Simon Fraser University. One of the key problems for SFU and the surrounding Univercity neighbourhood is that it is situated atop of a 370 metre-tall mountain. The university, first established in 1965, was built on a plateau on Burnaby Mountain…
A couple of years ago, I picked up this Sailor Moon disc. I think I got it from eBay. Unfortunately, I had mistaken this disc for something else. However, it turns out to be a fun little multimedia application specifically for the Macintosh. Let’s explore it and see what we can find and also what we can also do with it! Extracting the disc So right off the bat, my modern Mac running macOS 26…
It’s that time where everybody has their two cents to offer on what their year has been about and this post is pretty much the same. Some years I’ve been really good about this and others not so much, but we’re here now and I’ve been writing this on and off for the past month so let’s go for it. Health 2025 brought on the rude realisation that I am getting older and as a consequence injuries have…
All of these photos were taken using Harman’s Red 125 35 mm film. I bought this on a whim with the feeling that I would really like the output of this film; I was completely right. Using my Nikon F60 with a Nikkor 28-80 mm, I took photos during my trip to the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia during the middle of October 2025. I also took some shots on some Kodak 400TX, but it was at the tail end…
Edinburgh skyline as seen from next to Waverley Station Last year, I had finally visited Scotland–Edinburgh to be exact. It is a lovely city with an excellent public transport system to the point where Waverley Station–located in a former lake surrounded by the original city centre (or “Old Town”)–became one of my favourite railway stations in the world. The buses and the single tram line made it…
Collection of film with a Fed 3 camera Some months back I decided to finally make use of my 35 mm cameras and take photos. However, being that the cameras I had were both built in Ukraine SSR, I decided that I should pick up film from AliExpress and use that. This whole process ended up becoming an ordeal because I eventually had to drop the use of my Fed 3 camera due to the fact that its lens…
SkyTrain Mark V arriving at the station Sorry for the lack of posts for the past while. I have been unbelievably busy. Enjoy this new blog format! I had the fortunate luck to catch a brand new Mark V over the weekend and I have a lot of thoughts on why this train is good and why we’re sort of at the end of Expo Line expansion. Overall the train is really good and iterates well on four decades of…
Depiction of the Butlerian Jihad from the books Earlier this year, my friend asked me to come over to her place to watch Dune Part One so she could the next day drag me to see Part Two in cinema. After that weekend, I gained a new set of worlds to explore: a universe once tainted by artificial intelligence but no longer thanks to a war with “thinking machines”. This wasn’t my first experience with…
Press release from the Saskatchewan Party on September 13, 2024 Often I find myself writing about transit and thinking that many lives would not have been lost were we to have more publicly funded transit options. However, despite all of that, we have governments that don’t ever equate the use of transit and the reduction of vehicular alcohol abuse. Earlier this month, The Saskatchewan Party…
This was mirrored from cohost after being posted as my final piece there before it went into “read-only” mode. This is my last long-form post on cohost and I figure I’d give you my thoughts before I go. I’ve been on some form of social media for better or for worse since December 2000. To put into context where I was at in life back then, I was 16-years old and was still in secondary school. I was…
Promotional image showing a Class 142 railbus somewhere in the Fraser Valley (British Rail) The theme of Expo 86 was transportation and many, many countries took advantage of the show to demonstrate their developments in this field. Of course, the star of the show was Canada’s SkyTrain, but Japan showed its maglev train, America its cars, and the United Kingdom showed its conventional rail. Said…
Waking up and seeing this mountain each morning while camping was just excellent. (Taken just north of Pemberton, British Columbia)
BC Electric train at New Westminster Station during the Duke of Connaught visit (City of New Westminster) New Westminster Station today For those who use New Westminster Station on the regular, it’s a place you either pass through, you get off to see a movie, or you catch a bus from to go up the steep hills of the city is named for. However, it has a long history of being a terminus going back to…
Exterior of the inhaler Partially taken apart Interior mechanicals Metalic strip removed I found myself rather dismayed at how much plastic is required to make this medical device work for me each morning. To alleviate this, I wanted to know how it worked and maybe see if I can recycle any or part of it so over the weekend I took it apart. The device has two rollers as it permits two different…